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  1. The familiar labyrinth: practicing urban disorientation in post-apartheid Cape Town

    The familiar labyrinth: practicing urban disorientation in post-apartheid Cape Town

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Giovanni Spissu --- Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
    In this article, I discuss how urban disorientation can be used in ethnographic research as an investigative tool to explore the city. In particular, I examine how urban disorientation can be taken as an ethnographic tactic with the purpose of...
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  2. Cruising queer, old Joburg

    Cruising queer, old Joburg

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jonathan Cane --- Wits City Institute, South Africa
    The article presents a queer reflection on the method of Walter Benjamin in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using a critical method of ephemera collection and collage, it offers a layered and provocative map of the city before the end of apartheid...
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  3. Hope in the debris of capitalist dys/utopia? Historical progress and the intricacies of everyday life in Lephalale

    Hope in the debris of capitalist dys/utopia? Historical progress and the intricacies of everyday life in Lephalale

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thembi Luckett --- Sociology Department, South Africa
    In 2015, the local municipality of Lephalale in the Limpopo province of South Africa heralded the town as “the new Johannesburg” and the “future hub of power generation in South Africa.” The growth of the town is based on the...
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  4. Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities

    Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Corinne Kratz --- Department of Anthropology and Institute of African Studies, United States of America Jill Weintroub --- Life in the City Programme, Wits City Institute, South Africa Noëleen Murray --- Wits City Institute, South Africa
    This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa’s iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge’s art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989),...
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